adjective
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In so much of modern cinema, “fun” has replaced “safe,” a new adjective with a better connotation meant to save middling films from themselves.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Their long, heavy eyelids give them a look of drowsy calm; the adjective most often associated with them is “chill.”
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
“You don’t often see the adjective ‘warm’ attached to a titan of industry, but it applied to him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"The only adjective I have to describe grief is weird - it's really complex," said Chloe, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
It's basically Tiny's slightly fictionalized life story, except it is sung, and it is—I mean, I don't use this adjective lightly—the gayest single musical in all of human history.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
Patterns of neural activity revealed that the brain could distinguish different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
They ignored the numbers and filled their dispatches with adjectives indicating a doom that, hilariously, the study didn’t support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It's hard to find the right adjectives to do it justice.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
It sounds aligned with the adjectives I gave, but I’m unsure what narcotic means in this context.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
The subject is substance, and it stays singular no matter how many disgusting adjectives you pile on.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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